Try that bone on another dog, said the landlord; as if I did not know how many make five, and where my shoe pinches me; don't think to feed me with pap, for by God I am no fool.
Basketball originated in 1891 when a future Presbyterian minister named James Naismith (1861-1939) was assigned to teach a physical education class at a Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) training school in Springfield, Massachusetts.
The Canadian physical education instructor who invented basketball in 1891.See Also - History of basketball, Dr. James Naismith's Original 13 Rules for Basketball. The Scottish mathematician who invented logarithms, the decimal point, and Napier's Bones.